Human Beings Quotes - Page 8

• There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

  Gertrude Stein

  Equality, Differences, People

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

  Stefan Zweig

  Truth, Heroic Deeds, Humanity

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• Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.

  Stefan Zweig

  Inspirational, Individual Strength, Giving

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• As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of moralityonly by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.

  Stefan Zweig

  Community, Humanity, Progress

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• One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

  Stefan Zweig

  Strength, Character, Human Nature

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• Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

  Stefan Zweig

  Leadership, Powerful, Fall

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• We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Organization

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• Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Mean, Men, Compassion

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• Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.

  Angelina Grimke

  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

  Angelina Grimke

  Heart, Slavery, Race Relations

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• What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Beauty, Assessment, Appreciate

  "A Primer on Environmental Decision-Making: An Integrative Quantitative Approach". Book by Knut Lehre Seip, Fred Wenstop, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 184, 2006.

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• If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Animal, Intelligence

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• Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.

  Clarence Thomas

  Country, Moving, Citizens

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• Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Watches

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• Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Numbers, People

  Margaret Thatcher (1977). “Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977”

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• Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Successful, Interesting, Way

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• Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!

  Paris Reidhead

  Death, God, Religious

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• ... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

  Hortense Odlum

  Marriage, Disappointment, Business

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• Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Names, Race, People

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• We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Wisdom, Hands, History

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• Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place,being alive right now is the greatest gift i got from God.

  Rob Brezsny

  Inspirational, Giving, Heaven

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• We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

  Howard Gardner

  Focus, Needs, Want

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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• The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Psychological, Process, Results

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• Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Caring, Profound, Perspective

  Ellen Galinsky (1987). “The Six Stages of Parenthood”, Da Capo Press

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• One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Faults, Weakness, Purpose

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